Barry Cade

1990s Cosseh owner. 2023 Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 owner. Me when the Cosseh was the thing to beat on the street. Me now. Something went badly wrong somewhere.. I thought cars were for fun, transport and... well, other things. Now I understand all those weirdos who never took their toy cars out of the box.

Shut your eyes and ill bet it still smells like coming home from the pub in 1988. 600 large for a base model repmobile, with a Transit bottom end, fancy cylinder head and a turbo, a spoiler, some big alloys and a nerdy previous owner.. These are still worth south of 10 grand in my eyes. Blue collar hero my arse. Give me an SD1 Vitesse any day of the week.

That's what the windsock on the back door is for 😆

Could be legit. Should be under 3.5t if the Sprinter is empty and might not be hire or reward 😄

Just remember this Is a hybrid, but has a 2.5 petrol engine. Other Rav models can tow 1600kg, so no problem with body strength etc. All to do with the hybrid and the vehicles weight.. any caravanners out there, look after what you have... this looks like the future.

Just had to abort a job to fit a towbar to a 2022 Rav 4 hybrid. Chap has just bought a swift 530, at 1400kg.. the Rav maximum towing capacity is 800kg.. WTF?

Funny, I spotted one today as well. Lying in a driveway in Freuchie with the nsr wheel at a strange angle.. looks serious..

I know of 4 or 5 cars locally lying in fields, after the police changed their policy on recovery. At least 3 are "fast" Audi's.. the others are BMWs. The local farmers are getting pretty fed up, and are making life really difficult for insurers and recovery people. Recovery trucks rarely have enough cable on the winch, and farmers won't let you in the field.. police aren't interested as its not causing an obstruction.. stalemate.

The car wizard on you tube has just rebuilt a Northstar, seemingly there is a fix for everything now, but quite a big job.

😄 I remember Ron Dixons 2.8 capri, Max Farnham had a Volvo 480, also remember a mk1 1100s Fiesta , a Frontera and the obvious MK1 Cortina.. Bobby Grant had a Montego as well I think.. this might be fun!

Yep, me too, with plenty 10p's for the phone. You outbid me quite often in the early days of Ebay... I'll never forget your Ebay handle 😄 We must have similar tastes... or budgets...

Yeah, then appears a few hours later at a 100% markup Everybody is a poundshop Mike Brewer these days. Just watched a mk2 Cav SRi sell for £9300. FFS. Would somebody please tell my boss old stuff is worth a lot more?

I just bought an LS2 firefly, to replace my LS2 metro. Reduced at M+P from £169.95 to 35 quid... pinlock, inner tinted visor, and ACE gold rated. Glows in the dark too 🙃 That'll do. Noticed as well it has red tabs on the sides in the lining- checked the website and its emergency tabs to take the lining out for the emergency services.. never seen that before.

Front End Chatter is a podcast about motorbikes, just noticed your number plate.. people that listen are feccers.. If you like bikes, it's worth a listen!

Are you a Front End Chatter listener..?

Proper proper want. One of these is on my bucket list.

You're getting Erich Honecker mixed up with Nicola Sturgeon again.. Oh.

Eeek. I like those too, and considered one. My Triumph lives outside under a cover and has no signs of this at all at 11 years old. Is it pitted or just tarnish? Is your garage damp?

VOSA went away in 2014... its really DVSA, who deal with everything now..

I don't think the gubbermint would or should get involved in actual testing, would be better to have a TUV type body, or even the like of the AA or ADAC type thing. Standalone testing stations with fixed price and countrywide tester compliance testing. I'd go even further and test trailers and caravans. But, this would never make Brits think like Germans who seem to like rules and regulations.. but they can also do 160 on the Autobahn. I really do think the DVLA are skirting round the edges. That testing manual needs re written for a start, instead of appendix 1 ,section 3 ,revision 4 etc. Start again for this century at least.

I think like the majority of classic car owners, you are an enthusiast and maintain your car properly. I did worry when the exemption was introduced that some unscrupulous folk would buy an old car just to save cash but that didn't really happen. I probably wouldn't get an exempt car motd either, but it would be kept to beyond mot standard.

I filled in the DVLA survey, and that's pretty much what I said. I also said it should be taken out of private garages hands and a system like Germany or Spain put in place.

We had a 55SX, picked up from Perth auctions for £200.. Had it 3 years and it never put a foot wrong. Much better car than a Mk2.

Local spot.

My driveway many years ago... A driveway close by. They got scrapped before I could get to them.. My work. You can't just have one...